Effectiveness of Analgesia in Total Knee Arthroplasty
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2014-02-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare the analgesic effectiveness of three techniques: the
femoral nerve block, intraarticular infiltration or a combination of both in the control of
pain in total knee arthroplasty (KA). The hypothesis to be tested in this study is that the
performance multimodal postoperative pain KA combining two analgesic techniques to obtain
better analgesia than when applied separately.